spitting images
Exact visual copies
Spitting images are exact likenesses or doubles of someone, almost always used of people who closely resemble each other: The twins are spitting images of their father.
The phrase usually appears in the singular—spitting image—describing one person as the near-clone of another.
The origin is disputed, but the sense is unmistakable: resemblance so strong it's almost eerie.
- doppelgangerSupernatural duplicate of oneself
- twinOne of matched pair
- resemblanceLikeness between things
- likenessVisual similarity or representation
- identical twinsSiblings from one zygote
lookalike · dead ringer · double · carbon copy · clone · replica · cut and paste · simulacrum · portrait · chip off the old block · heredity · cut from the same cloth · lineage · forgery · imitation · like two peas in a pod · two of a kind · reproduction
spitting imagespolar opposites
Maximally opposed counterparts
worlds apart · night and day · unrecognizable · dissimilar · chalk and cheese
spitting imagesone of a kind
Utterly without equal
unmistakable · singular · inimitable · original · incomparable
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